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...Supreme Court edict outlawing segregation in public schools knocks the hell out of Jim Crow and makes all other forms of segregation and discrimination look sillier than ever. TIME'S March 24 article on the ruling should be read by every American ... It is so important now that all citizens of the U.S. be made aware of the fact that the Negro is a man, a citizen of equal rank, and that two-thirds of mankind's people are dark-skinned, and they are watching and gauging America in terms of her treatment of the Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...River, he entered a splendid new world. The natural setting was vast and varied, the Indians rich and strange. The prosperity of the plains tribes had been enormously boosted by the introduction of Spanish horses from New Mexico and California. The Mandan, the Sioux, the Comanche, the Blackfoot, the Crow and a score more nations were at the climax of their glory-which white pressure was to crush in a matter of decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frontier Reporter: Frontier Reporter, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...cigarettes were a growing favorite among South Africa's urban Negroes. Suddenly, sales began to fall off. International investigators discovered that United was hiring Negro rumormongers, who were going into beer halls and factories and spreading the word that Maxes were made by an apartheid (i.e., Jim Crow) company. What was more, said the paid detractors, Maxes caused coughing and tuberculosis. In May 1953, International sent its lawyers to court seeking $8,400,000 damages. In his decision last week, Judge Clayden found all United's propaganda false. International is not an apartheid company, and as for Maxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not a Cough in a Carload | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Joseph Harrison Ill '56 of Ardmore Penn, and Dunster House was elected varsity heavy crow manager for 1955-56. William H. Pear II '56 of Greenwich, Conn., and Dunster will manage the varsity 150-pound crew in the same year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrison Wins Crew Post | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

...scholarly New York Negro lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, the court's decision was the victory of a lifetime. Marshall, a graduate of Jim Crow schools, handled the state cases for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Said he: "The most gratifying thing, in addition to the fact it was in favor of our side, is the unanimous decision and the language used. Once and for all, it's decided, completely decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: To All on Equal Terms | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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